NOW .
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you can add this
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eagerly awaited volume to •
your permanent book.
shelf-next to his poems
and plays .••
W.B.YEATS
ESSAYS AND INTRODUCTIONS
Long unavailable, this collec–
tion illuminates the philosophy
which so greatly influenced
Yeats's later work.
It
includes
"Ideas of Good and Evil" and
"The Cutting of an
Agate"-plus
two previously unpublished ma–
jor essays, "A General Introduc–
tion for m'y Work" and "An
Introduction for my Plays."
"Heu is the bony structure of
thought on which Yeats built his
poetry and the Irish literary
movement, of which he was the
founder."
-Christian Science Monitor
"These essays show his extra–
ordinary gift for being right ••.
His is a triumph of intuition over
knowledge." -Frank O'Connor,
N. Y. Times Book Review
530 pages $6.50
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Destined to become the
standard work ...
THE NOVELS OF
HENRY JAMES
by
Oscar Cargill
The distinguished author, an–
thologist, and head of the Eng–
lish department at New York
University has written a defini–
tive study of the novels of Henry
James and a complete synthesis
of Jamesian criticism to the pres–
ent.
505 pages
$7.95
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What do Ahab, Hester Prynne, HLlck
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Finn, Isabel Archer, Holden Caulfield,
and the Joads have in common?
THE DUNG 'ON
OPTH. HEART
Human Isolation and the
American Novel
by
Edwin
T.
Bowden
A dominant theme of the American
novel, says this author, critic, and
teacher, Is the sense of isolation that
distinguishes Its major characters. His
highly provocative approach sheds new
light on 12 Important novels-from
The Deerslayer to The Catcher In the
Rye-and on the whole field of Ameri–
can literature and the culture that gave
birth,to it.
"The scholarly scalpel has smartly
Isolated fictional isolation, and we see
story·telling and story·tellers freshly."
-Saturday Review Syndicate
$3.75 cloth $1.75 paper
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New biography by
prize-winning biographer
lafcadio
Hearn
by Elizabeth Stevenson
Th.
first woman to win
the coveted '
Bancroft Prize (for Henry
Adams: A '
8;ography), Miss Stevenson has now
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written a full-length biography of ona
of the most tragic, romantic, and little–
known figures in American literature.
With meticulous documentation and
sympathetic insight, she has drawn a
remarkable portrait of the sensitive and
restless man who was Japan's dis·
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cover.r for most of the Western
world.
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362 pages $6.95
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